Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 1
Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is an outgrowth of sympathy with history.
Who acts: Folklore, outgrowth · What happens: be, result · To what, where: outgrowth, nature myths
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folklore, outgrowth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 outgrowth | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 outgrowth | cop |
| 3 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 outgrowth | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outgrowth | det |
| 5 | outgrowth | outgrowth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sympathy | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sympathy | det |
| 8 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 outgrowth | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sympathy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resulting | punct |
| 12 | resulting | result | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 outgrowth | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 myths | case |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 myths | compound |
| 15 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resulting | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 outgrowth | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 outgrowth | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 outgrowth | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 outgrowth | cop |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 outgrowth | det |
| 21 | outgrowth | outgrowth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 myths | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sympathy | case |
| 23 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 outgrowth | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 history | case |
| 25 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sympathy | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 outgrowth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Folklore | the outgrowth | of a sympathy with nature; sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | result | gerund | the outgrowth not said here | nature myths and a outgrowth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in myth=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Folklore | a outgrowth | of sympathy with history; sometimes property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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